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HEAL SPOTS AND BLEMISHES
At er activating the tool, select Heal mode. Heal works best for retouching
areas of solid color or smooth gradients, like sky and skin. Heal mode smoothly
blends the sample into the spot.
N
Activate/
deactivate the
Spot Removal
tool
4
CLONE TEXTURES AND PATTERNS
Clone is best used for replicating textures, patterns and hard lines in the photo.
It makes exact copies of the sampled pixels and pastes them at the destination.
Whereas the Heal brush
evaluates the surrounding areas
when applying the new pixels to
the destination, the Clone tool
does not—it just copies pixels.
If you need to retouch over the
slats of a picket fence, replicate
leaves and grass, or place a third
eye on your mother-in-law, the
Clone tool is the right tool for
the job; see Figure 4-101.
[
Reduce brush
size
]
Enlarge brush
size
Shift+[
Reduce feather
by 5
Figure 4-101
Shift+]
Increase feather
by 5
H
Hide the spot
removal tool
overlay
As you might expect, because it exactly copies pixels without blending, cloning
requires you to work with more precision than Healing. At er clicking to place
your retouch spot, you may need to relocate the source.
Like the other tools, you can hide the spot removal overlay while you work.
I i nd this really makes retouching easier.
Do your retouching late in the workl ow
You may ot en be inclined to perform retouching at the beginning of your
processing, such as blotting out annoying sensor dust spots evident in the blue
sky or getting rid of the twig poking out of someone's head. But as troublesome as
these elements may appear at i rst glance, most of the time it's best to wait until the
end of the workl ow to do your retouching—you might save lots of time.
For example, you wouldn't want to spend time retouching the edge of the image
and then crop it. More importantly, you will ot en i nd that other processing
reduces the need for retouching.
Bearing in mind the principle of working from large to small, global to local,
it stands to reason that retouching is best done at er the other stages of the
Develop workl ow.
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